Ever opened a math textbook and doubted your math skills because you can’t reach the answer you’re supposed to get? Some questions may seem so convoluted that you might not even want to read the whole thing? Don’t know how to help your kids learn in the simple ways you did? Well rest assured, there’s nothing wrong with you and no, math has not gotten harder since your time!

Parents of today—especially those helping their kids do homework—should know that the problem lies in the textbooks themselves! More and more textbooks today are turning up with incomplete learning tools: key information or steps are missing, some questions involve a concept your child hasn’t been introduced to yet, and the answers given at the back aren’t the right ones!

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Afraid of Your Child’s Math Textbook? You Should Be. via open.salon.com

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